I just want to make sure that my California friends and families from the Gangster BB are all ok in regards to the tragic train crash that occured this morning. I sincerely hope and pray that everyone and their families are ok!

Please let us know!


Don Cardi

As far as I know, no one I know was on that train.

I can't imagine how scary that must have been for the people on the train!!

Apparently, a suicidal man parked his car on the tracks, and waited for the train to come crashing through. But the idiot got out of the car right before the impact and watched the whole thing. The train also crashed into another parked train, I think... At least 10 people died, and more than 100 are injured.

Some people are so damn stupid. Why couldn't he shoot himself or something quiet like that? I guess he didn't even think about the other 250+ people who ride the Metrolink every day. He should have stayed in his car, as far as I'm concerned. :rolleyes:

Channel 4 is airing the story now. Like Zia said, the man was gonna commit suicide. They said he changed his mind and got out of the car and left the car right on the tracks. . :rolleyes: They did say the that charging him with murder, with special circumstances is NOT out of the question.

I only know one person who takes the metrolink, and I know he gets up very very early to go into L.A. I haven't heard that he was on it, so I assume he is ok. Some people are really idiots.

They had some of the battered victims on tv this morning, mostly with bumps/bruises, bloody foreheads, etc., all of them feeling very lucky, considering 10 people died.


TIS

TIS - What is happening out there on the left coast? Do you have any info beyond what is on the web?

Never Mind - I was 2 minutes too late - thanks for the update!

Ok, my two favorite California Girls are ok!



Don Cardi

Thank God that Zia and TIS are fine and dandy.

Gee, thanks for your concern guys. Actually Zia is much closer to that crash than I am, and actually was the first person I thought of. Since she works on Rodeo Drive, I didn't think she took the metrolink.


TIS

Yeah, thanks! So sweet. I am pretty close to it, but like TIS said, I don't take the Metro, ever. And btw, TIS, I don't work on Rodeo Dr. anymore... It's been a while, actually-- since I quit in June.

Is that because they wouldn't wait on you at first? "HUGE MISTAKE!" ( That's my favorite scene in the movie!)


Don Cardi

Ha ha ha!! Great one DC. And of course if that were the case, we'd just have to ask exactly "who" is paying for this shopping spree hu? Our little Zia is growing up. :p


TIS

TIS and LTZ- if it makes you feel any better, if something would have happened to either of you I would have avenged your deaths!

Yeah, he would have said "
Neri, take a train to California. Light a candle for the Archbishop."

Don Cardi

But all joking aside, isn't it eerie how this train wreck mirrored the season premiere of "24"? How uncanny!


Don Cardi

DC, that was a great "revenge" scene.

TIS, I, too, wonder who would fund that spree... I don't like Richard Gere, though. Actually, believe it or not, on Sunday, someone stopped me on the street and asked me for directions to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. I tried to contain my laughter as I patiently told him. I didn't join him, though. :rolleyes:

By the way, thanks, DMC. I feel all better now.

I haven't seen that... was it this season?

I haven't watched 24. Is that part of the storyline? That is eerie.

DC, it'd be great for you to come to CA, but hopefully you'll come before mine & Zia's demise in a train wreck. :p

Zia, you may have just passed up your fantasy shopping spree who knows? :p


TIS

TIS, judging by the impression other people (SC) have of California, you and I are completely doomed!! If we don't die in a train wreck, it'll be an earthquake, brushfire, mudslides, or drive-by shootings. Before joining the BB, I had never realized just how much danger I'm in from day to day. I lived in a sweet oblivion-- that innocence is gone now.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Italian Stallionette:
I haven't watched 24. Is that part of the storyline? That is eerie. [QUOTE]

In the season premiere, part of the plot involves a scene where a truck stops it's car right in the middle of the tracks causing a train wreck in California.

[QUOTE] DC, it'd be great for you to come to CA, but hopefully you'll come before mine & Zia's demise in a train wreck. :p [QUOTE]

GOD FORBID! Don't even go there! As you already know the closest I am coming to California this year is Las Vegas. But maybe next year, you never know!

[QUOTE] Zia, you may have just passed up your fantasy shopping spree who knows? :p [QUOTE]

If you two ladies come to New York, I'll take you both on a shopping spree on Fifth Avenue, deal?


Don Cardi

Deal! I'm printing this out, I want it signed and notarized. Watch out, I have good taste.

Yea!!!!! DC's buying!!!! There's a TIffanys in NYC right??? Fantasy sports nothing......we're goin' shoppin' right Zia?

That DC is all right you know it?? :p


TIS

Hey! I said I would "TAKE" you to Fifth Avenue on a shopping spree, I never said "TREAT" you!
Ok, I'll pay for the Cab! :rolleyes:

Oh and Zia, you don't scare me with your expensive taste! My wife is the queen of shopping here in New York!


Don Cardi

Okay, the cab's enough. Especially if you're going to end up driving it... I'll take care of the rest... I seem to do okay around here anyway, I've got a lot of practice.

By the way, I'd get along REALLY well with your wife, then. Forget you, I wanna go with her!! Okay, you can come along for kicks, but don't get in the way.

I'm fine out here in the OC!

Now I'm in REAL trouble!

Ok, TIS and I will go for some "Blue Drinks" while you and my wife spend my money together!


Don Cardi


Don Cardi

Glad to hear it Corpuzzi!

Don Cardi

Everything is fine out here in San Diego as well. No one that I know was involved, but God help those that were. I want to thank you guys (especially Don Cardi) for your thoughts and prayers, for they are greatly appreciated.

Bite your tongue. Better yet, let me bite your tongue. (apologies to Groucho Marx).

That isn't true, but I guess we New Yorkers are just more jaded. This reminds me of a true story from some 20 years ago: I was travelling to work (on the subway) when the train suddenly stopped, and stayed stopped for about 15 minutes. It was about this time that fellow passengers started grumbling about the delay. The conductor then announced on the p.a. that the delay was due to someone jumping on the tracks in an apparent suicide attempt. That was followed by a passenger yelling, "JEEEEZUS CHRIIIIST, WHY DIDN'T THE BUM STAY HOME AND STICK HIS HEAD IN THE OVEN". That was followed by cheers of agreement.

The (New York) moral of this story is do whatever you want, but don't make me late for work.

Don't worry LTZ, I don't believe that. Since when did people in Hollywood do their own stunts

BTW - You left out Charles Manson type gang attacks, road rage, high speed auto chases and Donner Pass crossings in winter. :p